[Python-ideas] Allowing comments after line continuations

[Christian Tismer]

On 17.05.13 00:26, Greg Ewing wrote:
> Terry Jan Reedy wrote:
>> In a string, \ escapes the immediate next character. This idea of \ 
>> at the *end* of a line, just before the newline character, is that it 
>> escapes the newline, *just as is does within a string*.
>
> That's how it currently works, but that doesn't mean it's
> how it *should* work. Especially if it leads to counter-
> intuitive and less-than-useful behaviour, which IMO it
> does.
>
> In between tokens, we expect whitespace to be treated
> flexibly, in the sense that wherever one whitespace
> character is allowed, we can substitute more than one.
> Line continuation with backslash currently breaks that
> expectation.
>

I would appreciate it very much if "\" were more intelligent.
So intelligent, that I don't want to avoid it, but want to use it!
So let us make it ignore white-space and allow comments,
and I'll be more than happy with an ugly, but really useful back-slash !

+ 9**(9**9)

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